So, what’d I miss?
Aloha, everyone! I’m just coming up for air after having spent a two-week vacation on the East coast, where I spent time in Manhattan, Connecticut and the Berkshires. In each place I stayed, there...
Author: Tod Kelly
Anniversary!
“Publishing… now.” The above is the entire contents of an email I received from Erik Kain exactly one year ago today. The item referred to in this cryptically short message was my first ever...
This Week’s Political McNuggets: In which we find God in schools, Romney in NAACP-Land, and ethics pretty much nowhere
A few things I wanted to touch on today, but none of them really merit their own post: ________________ Louisiana, Florida to Allow God to Have a Peek at Public Schools: Conservative legislators in...
Why you should totally get an HSA, but Uncle Sam shouldn’t
First of all, a promise to everyone rolling their eyes that this will be my last post on health care for a while. I had intended to give it a rest after my last...
Sunday Afternoon Jukebox, Poem & Open Thread – Summer Wedding Edition
It’s not everyday that one of our regular readers decides to take the plunge and sashay on down the aisle. (Or at least I don’t think it is. Perhaps it happens all the time,...
Increased Health Insurance Competition Doesn’t Do What You Think It Does
As a principled pragmatic, I often reject the ‘Right vs. Left’ or ‘Tyranny vs. Freedom’ debates that political parties and moneyed interests frame for us. I find that our best solutions are usually arrived...
A call to everyone in Washington DC… nay, the entire Eastern seaboard!!!
I plan on heading to DC the weekend of September 14th to do some blogging on the 2012 Values Voter Summit. So I’m giving a heads up to anyone and everyone that might want...
Medicare vs. Universal Health Care: An Honest Question for the Right
Over the past two years, our country has raged over the questions surrounding healthcare reform. The Democrats, for better or worse, have taken the need to address serious healthcare system flaws that threaten the...
The Bible, the Constitution, and a Great Text’s Need for Constant & Open Interpretation
In the mid-nineteenth century, an upstate New Yorker and prophet by the name of William Miller founded his very own brand-new Protestant denomination. Like most prophets, Miller believed that he had a special and...
Some quick thoughts on the SCOTUS Obamacare decision…
As anyone with access to the internet, cable TV or radio knows, the Supreme Court announced this morning that it is upholding Obamacare. As I write this, the opinions themselves have yet to made...
Jon Stewart and Marco Rubio Do Political TV the Right Way
I haven’t seen much discussion on the intertubes of Jon Stewart’s interview with Marco Rubio last night. I find this somewhat puzzling, if not disappointing. For those that haven’t seen it, I cannot recommend it...
Straight White Guy Does Some Man-splaining
I did some catch-up reading at two of my favorite blogs today, both Alyssa Rosenberg’s joint and Blinded Trials. I found myself going back and forth between an Atlantic essay by Elizabeth Wurtzel that...
The Real Issue with Genre Fiction
Over at the fabulous Blinded Trials, a post by Russell on post-apocalyptic post-reads led to a discussion on genre fiction. Genre fiction, as most everyone knows, has a reputation of being “dumbed down” fiction...
What were the odds that the worst thing associated with the name Fast & Furious wouldn’t be Vin Diesel?
Next week, by all reports, Darrell Issa and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will vote to hold US Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for refusing to turn over documents that...
Dish? What’s a Dish?
Hat tip to reader maxine for sending this to me: It appears that around the same time the League was asking it’s readers to track down a copy of a 33-page change of address...
Win a Bottle of Delicious Whiskey with the “I Call Bulls**t” Challenge!
[NOTE: UPDATED CONTEST INFO BELOW] I’m starting a new semi-regular Election-2012 feature at the League, and if your party or candidate is worth your support and you can prove it – you could win a...
On putting heads on pikes… or not
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click here. “We...
The Ant and the Grasshopper : An Inequality Fable
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click here. Once...
Can we at least get Sam Wilkinson to agree that THIS art is inherently s**ty?
A moment of levity for those needing a brief respite from the intellectual heft of the Inequality Symposium:
The League’s Inequality Symposium Starts Tomorrow
Tomorrow morning we will begin the League’s Inequality Symposium. It will go all day and beyond, until the conversation runs its course. A reminder to those that want to submit a post – it’s...
